Her role is a mechanism in a political machine that upholds white supremacy. Even though that role is filled by a Black woman, it’s still the function of that role to maintain the status quo — which includes sanctioned state violence against Black people. Breaking down the machine from within the machine is a feat…

“Eat on Monday what everyone forgot they put in the fridge on Friday.”

Well, White people are consistent if nothing else; you have to give them credit for that much.

Corollary to this: a lot of the people that say "my parents beat me and I turned out great" are not such wonderful poster children for that theory as they seem to imagine.

Better question - since when do politicians think of the long-term consequences?

Hopefully 17 trillion. Beyonce is fucking terrible.

Yeah, I don't mean to say that such problems are unique to St. Louis—they're absolutely endemic across the whole country—but rather that there, due to the city's particular history of white flight, economic decline, and disastrous urban planning, the issues seem more stark than many other places.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

OF COURSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE A FUCKING DIAPER IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESTAURANT.

This. Russia's current economy is based on its control of commodities, particularly oil and natural gas. Putin is very well aware of this, and his current strategy appears to have two prongs: (1) Gain control over territories that either contain more of these resources or are critical supply lines for these resources,…

Lily white city?!?! You don't know Durham. We at one point had a black majority and in fact the city is thought to be "crime-ridden" by people in surrounding counties who are afraid of black faces. Don't confuse the Duke U population with that of the city - they are very different.